Limitation Act 1935

Subject to, and except as enacted by section 47, no action or suit or other proceeding shall be brought to recover the estate, or any share of the estate of any person dying intestate from the legal representative of such intestate, but within 12 years next after the present right to receive the same has accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for or release of the same; unless in the meantime some part of such estate or share, or some interest in respect thereof has been accounted for or paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto has been given in writing signed by the person accountable for the same or his agent to the person entitled thereto or his agent; and in such case no such action or suit shall be brought but within 12 years next after such accounting, payment, or acknowledgment, or the last of such accountings, payments, or acknowledgments (if more than one) was made or given.